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by ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. The continents are rapidly drying out and the earths vast freshwater resources are under threat, according to a recently released study based on more than 20 years of NASA satellite data. Here are the reports key findings and what they portend for humankind: Much of the Earth is suffering a pandemic of continental drying, affecting the countries containing 75% of the worlds population, the new research shows. The study, published in the journal Science Advances, examined changes to Earths total supply of fresh water and found that nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries facing a net decline in water supply, posing a critical, emerging threat to humanity. Mining of underground freshwater aquifers is driving much of the loss. According to the study, the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. Much of the water taken from aquifers ends up in the oceans, contributing to the rise of sea levels. Mined groundwater rarely seeps back into the aquifers from which it was pumped. Rather, a large portion runs off into streams, then rivers and ultimately the oceans. According to the researchers, moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans. Water From Land Has Become a Leading Driver of Sea Level Rise Most of the water lost from drying regions is from groundwater pumping, which ultimately shifts fresh water from aquifers into the oceans. Note: Glaciers refer to the parts of the continents covered in glaciers but excludes the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica. Drying land and aquifers refer to the water lost by the continents in areas not covered by glaciers, including river flow and evaporation. Groundwater loss accounts for 68% of the drying in those places. As droughts grow more extreme, farmers increasingly turn to groundwater. Worldwide, 70% of fresh water is used for growing crops, with more of it coming from groundwater as droughts grow more extreme. Only a small amount of that water seeps back into aquifers. Research has long established that people take more water from underground when climate-driven heat and drought are at their worst. Drying regions of the planet are merging. The parts of the world drying most acutely are becoming interconnected, forming what the studys authors describe as mega regions. One such region covers almost the whole of Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Asia. Drying of the Earth has accelerated in recent years. The study examines 22 years of observational data from NASAs Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE, satellites, which measure changes in the mass of the earth and have been applied to estimate its water content. Since 2002, the sensors have detected a rapid shift in water loss across the planet. Around 2014, the study found the pace of drying appears to have accelerated. It is now growing by an area twice the size of California each year. The Drying of the Earth Accelerated in Recent Years The dramatic depletion of groundwater and surface water plus the melting of glaciers between 2014-24 has connected once-separate arid places, forming mega-drying regions that stretch across whole continents. Watch video Note: Data is for February 2003 to December 2013 and January 2014 to April 2024. The first time period contains seven more months of data than the second. Water pumped from aquifers is not easily replaced, if it can be at all. Major groundwater basins underlie roughly one-third of the planet, including about half of Africa, Europe and South America. Many of those aquifers took millions of years to form and might take thousands of years to refill. The researchers warn that it is now nearly impossible to reverse the loss of water on human timescales. As continents dry and coastal areas flood, the risk for conflict and instability increases. The accelerated drying, combined with the flooding of coastal cities and food-producing lowlands, heralds potentially staggering and cascading risks for global order, the researchers warn. Their findings all point to the likelihood of widespread famine, the migration of large numbers of people seeking a more stable environment and the carry-on impact of geopolitical disorder. Data Source: Hrishikesh. A. Chandanpurkar, James S. Famiglietti, Kaushik Gopalan, David N. Wiese, Yoshihide Wada, Kaoru Kakinuma, John T. Reager, Fan Zhang (2025). Unprecedented Continental Drying, Shrinking Freshwater Availability, and Increasing Land Contributions to Sea Level Rise. Science Advances. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx0298Graphics by Lucas Waldron

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A company called Germ is aiming to bring end-to-end encrypted messages to Blueskys AT Protocol, a feature that the social network doesnt currently have.The tools security is yet to be independently audited, but the company says it plans to seek that out soon. Mark Xue, a former privacy engineer at Apple and CTO of Germ, told 404 Media Weve been working for about two years on Germ, and on this integration for 6 months or so.Essentially, Germ is its own app which is integrating with the AT Protocol that powers Bluesky, according to an announcement post the company shared with 404 Media before it went live on Monday. It describes itself as the first secure messaging service on the ATProtocol!To start an encrypted chat, users will click the magic link in a Bluesky users bio, the announcement says. A persons Bluesky or AT Protocol handle acts as what German calls an identity card. This directs people to the Germ app, which in turn asks for the users Bluesky handle and credentials. The messaging itself then happens in the Germ app, not Blueskys own, but it still serves as a way to connect people who are trying to send encrypted messages to Bluesky users.Screenshots provided by Germ.Rianna Pfefferkorn, a policy researcher at Stanford and who told 404 Media she was an advisor to Germ, said I believe theyve got a great bench of expertise, between their CTOs background at Apple and the outside advisors theyve brought on who have very deep expertise in cryptography. She said Tessa Brown, Germs CEO, reached out because I had long been arguing, in my work at Stanford, that strong encryption is not incompatible with effective trust & safety.That has been a constant tension in private messaging apps and social networks. If a platform introduces end-to-end encrypted messaging in order to protect users privacy, does that potentially enable other bad behavior, because the platform will be unable to see it?By design, end-to-end encryption means Germ cant analyze the content of peoples messages, just like Signal, iMessage, and WhatsApp. We will have abuse mitigation like those established systems do, Xue said. He added A key dimension of abuse in DMs is unsolicited or unwanted contact. With our integration, users will be able to use their Bluesky handle as their messaging identity without opening up unsolicited DMs. They can grant permission to contact by exchanging cards directly (by QR code or link), while still proving and using the ongoing binding between their private Germ Card and their public Bluesky profile.We set out to build interoperable E2EE [end-to-end encrypted] DMs, because we believe that people should be able to make independent choices of software and still be able to talk with each other. Diversity of interoperable apps and infrastructure is also a core value of Blueskys AT Protocol (motivated by Musks acquisition of Twitter and subsequent user exodus). Theres a community working group to develop interoperable BSky E2EE DMs, and we think our implementation would be a great starting point, he added.In May 2024, Bluesky itself said encrypted DMs were coming down the line.

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by Aliyya Swaby ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. One afternoon in mid-September, a group of middle school girls in rural East Tennessee decided to film a TikTok video while waiting to begin cheerleading practice.In the 45-second video posted later that day, one girl enters the classroom holding a cellphone. Put your hands up, she says, while a classmate flickers the lights on and off. As the camera pans across the classroom, several girls dramatically fall back on a desk or the floor and lie motionless, pretending they were killed.When another student enters and surveys the bodies on the ground in poorly feigned shock, few manage to suppress their giggles. Throughout the video, which ProPublica obtained, a line of text reads: To be continuedPenny Jacksons 11-year-old granddaughter was one of the South Greene Middle School cheerleaders who played dead. She said the co-captains told her what to do and she did it, unaware of how it would be used. The next day, she was horrified when the police came to school to question her and her teammates. By the end of the day, the Greene County Sheriffs Department charged her and 15 other middle school cheerleaders with disorderly conduct for making and posting the video. Standing outside the schools brick facade, Lt. Teddy Lawing said in a press conference that the girls had to be held accountable through the court system to show that this type of activity is not warranted. The sheriffs office did not respond to ProPublicas questions about the incident.Widespread fear of school shootings is colliding with algorithms that accelerate the spread of the most outrageous messages to cause chaos across the country. Social videos, memes and retweets are becoming fodder for criminal charges in an era of heightened responses to student threats. Authorities say harsh punishment is crucial to deter students from making threatening posts that multiply rapidly and obscure their original source.In many cases, especially in Tennessee, police are charging students for jokes and misinterpretations, drawing criticism from families and school violence prevention experts who believe a measured approach is more appropriate. Students are learning the hard way that they cant control where their social media messages travel. In central Tennessee last fall, a 16-year-old privately shared a video he created using artificial intelligence, and a friend forwarded it to others on Snapchat. The 16-year-old was expelled and charged with threatening mass violence, even though his school acknowledged the video was intended as a private joke. Other students have been charged with felonies for resharing posts they didnt create. As ProPublica wrote in May, a 12-year-old in Nashville was arrested and expelled this year for sharing a screenshot of threatening texts on Instagram. He told school officials he was attempting to warn others and wanted to feel heroic.In Greene County, the cheerleaders video sent waves through the small rural community, especially since it was posted several days after the fatal Apalachee High School shooting one state away. The Georgia incident had spawned thousands of false threats looping through social media feeds across the country. Lawing told ProPublica and WPLN at the time that his officers had fielded about a dozen social media threats within a week and struggled to investigate them. We couldnt really track back to any particular person, he said.But the cheerleaders video, with their faces clearly visible, was easy to trace.Jackson understands that the video was in very poor taste, but she believes the police overreacted and traumatized her granddaughter in the process. I think they blew it completely out of the water, she said. To me, it wasnt serious enough to do that, to go to court.That perspective is shared by Makenzie Perkins, the threat assessment supervisor of Collierville Schools, outside of Memphis. She is helping her school district chart a different path in managing alleged social media threats. Perkins has sought specific training on how to sort out credible threats online from thoughtless reposts, allowing her to focus on students who pose real danger instead of punishing everyone. The charges in Greene County, she said, did not serve a real purpose and indicate a lack of understanding about how to handle these incidents. Youre never going to suspend, expel or charge your way out of targeted mass violence, she said. Did those charges make that school safer? No.When 16-year-old D.C. saw an advertisement for an AI video app last October, he eagerly downloaded it and began roasting his friends. In one video he created, his friend stood in the Lincoln County High School cafeteria, his mouth and eyes moving unnaturally as he threatened to shoot up the school and bring a bomb in his backpack. (We are using D.C.s initials and his dads middle name to protect their privacy, because D.C. is a minor.)D.C. sent it to a private Snapchat group of about 10 friends, hoping they would find it hilarious. After all, they had all teased this friend about his dark clothes and quiet nature. But the friend did not think it was funny. That evening, D.C. showed the video to his dad, Alan, who immediately made him delete it as well as the app. I explained how it could be misinterpreted, how inappropriate it was in todays climate, Alan recalled to ProPublica. It was too late. One student in the chat had already copied D.C.s video and sent it to other students on Snapchat, where it began to spread, severed from its initial context.That evening, a parent reported the video to school officials, who called in local police to do an investigation. D.C. begged his dad to take him to the police station that night, worried the friend in the video would get in trouble but Alan thought it could wait until morning. The next day, D.C. rushed to school administrators to explain and apologize. According to Alan, administrators told D.C. they understood it was a dumb mistake, uncharacteristic for the straight-A student with no history of disciplinary issues. In a press release, Lincoln County High School said administrators were made aware of a prank threat that was intended as a joke between friends.But later that day, D.C. was expelled from school for a year and charged with a felony for making a threat of mass violence. As an explanation, the sheriffs deputy wrote in the affidavit, Above student did create and distribute a video on social media threatening to shoot the school and bring a bomb.During a subsequent hearing where D.C. appealed his school expulsion, Lincoln County Schools administrators described their initial panic when seeing the video. Alan shared an audio recording of the hearing with ProPublica. Officials didnt know that the video was generated by AI until the school counselor saw a small logo in the corner. Everybody was on pins and needles, the counselor said at the hearing. What are we going to do to protect the kids or keep everybody calm the next day if it gets out? The school district declined to respond to ProPublicas questions about how officials handled the incident, even though Alan signed a privacy waiver giving them permission to do so.Alan watched D.C. wither after his expulsion: His girlfriend broke up with him, and some of his friends began to avoid him. D.C. lay awake at night looking through text messages he sent years ago, terrified someone decades later would find something that could ruin his life. If they are punishing him for creating the image, when does his liability expire? Alan wondered. If its shared again a year from now, will he be expelled again?Alan, a teacher in the school district, coped by voraciously reading court cases and news articles that could shed light on what was happening to his son. He stumbled on a case hundreds of miles north in Pennsylvania, the facts of which were eerily similar to D.C.s. In April 2018, two kids, J.S. and his friend, messaged back and forth mocking another student by suggesting he looked like a school shooter. (The court record uses J.S. instead of his full name to protect the students anonymity.) J.S. created two memes and sent them to his friend in a private Snapchat conversation. His friend shared the memes publicly on Snapchat, where they were seen by 20 to 40 other students. School administrators permanently expelled J.S., so he and his parents sued the school.In 2021, after a series of appeals, Pennsylvanias highest court ruled in J.S.s favor. While the memes were mean-spirited, sophomoric, inartful, misguided, and crude, the state Supreme Court justices wrote in their opinion, they were plainly not intended to threaten Student One, Student Two, or any other person.The justices also shared their sympathy with the challenges schools faced in providing a safe and quality educational experience in the modern age. We recognize that this charge is compounded by technological developments such as social media, which transcend the geographic boundaries of the school. It is a thankless task for which we are all indebted.After multiple disciplinary appeals, D.C.s school upheld the decision to keep him out of school for a year. His parents found a private school that agreed to let him enroll, and he slowly emerged from his depression to continue his straight-A streak there. His charge in court was dismissed in December after he wrote a 500-word essay for the judge on the dangers of social media, according to Alan.Thinking back on the video months later, D.C. explained that jokes about school violence are common among his classmates. We try to make fun of it so that it doesnt seem as serious or like it could really happen, he said. Its just so widespread that were all desensitized to it.He wonders if letting him back to school would have been more effective in deterring future hoax threats. I could have gone back to school and said, You know, we cant make jokes like that because you can get in big trouble for it, he said. I just disappeared for everyone at that school.When a school district came across an alarming post on Snapchat in 2023, officials reached out to Safer Schools Together, an organization that helps educators handle school threats. In the post, a pistol flanked by two assault rifles lay on a rumpled white bedsheet. The text overlaid on the photo read, Im shooting up central Im tired of getting picked on everyone is dying tomorrow.Steven MacDonald, training manager and development director for Safer Schools Together, recounted this story in a virtual tutorial posted last year on using online tools to trace and manage social media threats. He asked the school officials watching his tutorial what they would do next. How do we figure out if this is really our students bedroom?According to MacDonald, it took his organizations staff only a minute to put the text in quotation marks and run it through Google. A single local news article popped up showing that two kids had been arrested for sharing this exact Snapchat post in Columbia, Tennessee far from the original district.We were able to reach out and respond and say, You know what, this is not targeting your district, MacDonald said. Administrators were reassured there was a low likelihood of immediate violence, and they could focus on finding out who was recirculating the old threat and why.In the training video, MacDonald reviewed skills that, until recently, have been more relevant to police investigators than school principals: How to reverse image search photos of guns to determine whether a post contains a stock image. How to use Snapchat to find contact names for unknown phone numbers. How to analyze the language in the social media posts of a high-risk student.We know that why youre here is because of the increase and the sheer volume of these threats that you may have seen circulated, the non-credible threats that might have even ended up in your districts, he said. Between last April and this April, Safer Schools Together identified drastic increases in threat related behavior and graphic or derogatory social media posts.Back in the Memphis suburbs, Perkins and other Collierville Schools administrators have attended multiple digital threat assessment training sessions hosted by Safer Schools Together. Ive had to learn a lot more apps and social media than I ever thought, Perkins said.The knowledge, she said, came in handy during one recent incident in her district. Local police called the district to report that a student had called 911 and reported an Instagram threat targeting a particular school. They sent Perkins a photo of the Instagram profile and username. She began using open source websites to scour the internet for other appearances of the picture and username. She also used a website that allows people to view Instagram stories without alerting the user to gather more information.With the help of police, Perkins and her team identified that the post was created by someone at the same IP address as the student who had reported the threat. The girl, who was in elementary school, confessed to police that she had done it.The next day, Perkins and her team interviewed the student, her parents and teachers to understand her motive and goal. It ended up that there had been some recent viral social media threats going around, Perkins said. This individual recognized that it drew in a lot of attention.Instead of expelling the girl, school administrators worked with her parents to develop a plan to manage her behavior. They came up with ideas for the girl to receive positive attention while stressing to her family that she had exhibited extreme behavior that signaled a need for intensive help. By the end of the day, they had tamped down concerns about immediate violence and created a plan of action.In many other districts, Perkins said, the girl might have been arrested and expelled for a year without any support which does not help move students away from the path of violence. A lot of districts across our state havent been trained, she said. Theyre doing this without guidance.Watching the cheerleaders TikTok video, it would be easy to miss Allison Bolinger, then the 19-year-old assistant coach. The camera quickly flashes across her standing and smiling in the corner of the room watching the pretend-dead girls.Bolinger said she and the head coach had been next door planning future rehearsals. Bolinger entered the room soon after the students began filming and didnt think anything of it. Cheerleading practice went forward as usual that afternoon. The next day, she got a call from her dad: The cheerleaders were suspended from school, and Bolinger would have to answer questions from the police.I didnt even know the TikTok was posted. I hadnt seen it, she said. By the time I went to go look for it, it was already taken down. Bolinger said she ended up losing her job as a result of the incident. She heard whispers around the small community that she was responsible for allowing them to create the video.Bolinger said she didnt realize the video was related to school shootings when she was in the room. She often wishes she had asked them at the time to explain the video they were making. I have beat myself up about that so many times, she said. Then again, theyre also children. If they dont make it here, theyll probably make it at home.Jackson, the grandmother of the 11-year-old in the video, blames Bolinger for not stopping the middle schoolers and faults the police for overreacting. She said all the students, whether or not their families hired a lawyer, got the same punishment in court: three months of probation for a misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge, which could be extended if their grades dropped or they got in trouble again. Each family had to pay more than $100 in court costs, Jackson said, a significant amount for some.Jacksons granddaughter successfully completed probation, which also involved writing and submitting a letter of apology to the judge. She was too scared about getting in trouble again to continue on the cheerleading team for the rest of the school year. Jackson thinks that officials outsize response to the video made everything worse. They shouldnt even have done nothing until they investigated it, instead of making them out to be terrorists and traumatizing these girls, she said. Paige Pfleger of WPLN/Nashville Public Radio contributed reporting.

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by Patricia Callahan ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as theyre published. The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a generic drugmaker that was the subject of a ProPublica investigation last year, citing problems with safety tests that delayed the recall of a medicine linked to deaths in the U.S.In December, ProPublica reported that a Glenmark Pharmaceuticals factory in central India was responsible for an outsized share of recalls for pills that didnt dissolve properly and could harm American patients. Among the string of recalls, federal regulators had determined that more than 50 million potassium chloride extended-release capsules sold in the U.S. could be deadly. Yet, federal drug inspectors at that point hadnt set foot in the Madhya Pradesh factory for more than four years, ProPublica found.Seven weeks after that story was published, FDA inspectors showed up at the plant and found serious problems. Glenmark subsequently recalled an additional two dozen medicines made there and sold to U.S. patients.Now the FDA has sent Glenmark a warning letter, a disciplinary tool the regulator uses to lay out significant violations of federal requirements and demand changes. If Glenmark fails to fix any of the problems outlined, the FDA warned, it may bar drugs made at the factory from entering the U.S. Whats more, the FDA pointed out that the company had made similar serious mistakes at three other manufacturing sites and acknowledged that those factories had been the subject of previous warning letters from the agency since 2019. The problems at one were so severe that federal regulators blocked drugs made there from being imported to Americans. ProPublicas December investigation highlighted this pattern, noting that three of the five factories where Glenmark made drugs for the U.S. market in recent years had been in trouble with federal regulators. Despite that track record, the FDA backlogged from the pandemic waited five years before sending its inspectors back to the Madhya Pradesh plant.In his July 11 warning letter, the director of the FDAs Office of Manufacturing Quality wrote, These repeated failures at multiple sites demonstrate that management oversight and control over the manufacture of drugs is inadequate. (The agency made the letter publiclast week.) You should immediately and comprehensively assess your companys global manufacturing operations to ensure that systems, processes, and the products manufactured conform to FDA requirements, he added.A spokesperson for the company said in a written statement: Glenmark is actively engaging with the U.S. FDA and has initiated corrective actions to address the agencys observations. Patient safety, product quality and regulatory compliance are foundational to how we operate.Citing ongoing litigation the company faces, she declined to comment further.ProPublica has been investigating the FDAs oversight of foreign factories that make generic drugs for the U.S. market. Since last year, ProPublica repeatedly has asked the FDA why it didnt send inspectors to the Glenmark factory sooner, given the outsized share of recalls and the companys troubled track record at its other plants. The agency hasnt answered the question. After the inspection found problems this year, an FDA spokesperson said the agency can only discuss potential or ongoing compliance matters with the company involved. Among the most serious violations outlined in the FDA letter to Glenmark was the companys failure to promptly test pills to ensure they dissolve properly during their normal shelf life, the subject of ProPublicas investigation last year. Companies hold on to samples of pills from batches sold to U.S. customers and test them periodically until they reach their expiration date. Medicines that dont dissolve properly can cause perilous swings in dosing. This flaw is what made Glenmarks potassium chloride pills potentially deadly since high potassium levels can stop the heart, according to the June 2024 recall notice.Glenmarks backlogged testing was overdue by 3 months or longer for a large proportion of your samples, the FDA wrote in the warning letter. The failure to perform these tests on time held up Glenmarks discovery of defective pills and delayed the needed recalls, the agency said.In multiple instances, the FDA found that it took 100 days from the time Glenmark pulled samples of potassium chloride for testing until the company learned the capsules had failed to dissolve correctly.A delay in that recall could factor into a lawsuit that alleges Glenmarks potassium chloride pills were responsible for the death last year of Mary Louise Cormier, a 91-year-old Maine woman. A letter alerting Cormier that her pills had been recalled arrived three weeks after she died. In court filings, Glenmark has denied responsibility for her death. The company stopped making the drug for U.S. patients.Between July and December last year, Glenmark told the FDA that it had received reports of eight deaths in patients who took the recalled potassium chloride, federal records show. The reports, which companies must file so the FDA can monitor drug safety, contained so few details that ProPublica was unable to independently verify what happened in each case. In general, these adverse event reports reflect the opinions of those who filed them and dont prove that the drug caused the harm, the FDA says. The agency didnt mention these deaths in the warning letter.The FDA lambasted Glenmark for failing to thoroughly investigate why pills made at its Madhya Pradesh factory werent dissolving properly. The agency listed possible reasons that Glenmark failed to consider, but FDA censors redacted so many passages citing the protection of trade secrets and confidential business information that its impossible to discern what could have gone wrong.Citing the same confidentiality provision, the FDA kept secret the name of another Glenmark drug that the agency said failed these same tests. When asked why consumers shouldnt be told which medication had the problem, the FDA didnt answer.More broadly, the FDAs warning letter criticized Glenmark for failing to validate the tests it relies on to prove that its drugs have the identity, strength, quality and purity that theyre supposed to have.Without evaluating the validity of methods, you lack the basic assurance that your laboratory data accurately reflects drug product quality, the FDA wrote.

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As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional needs.

A former content moderator for Chaturbate is suing the live-streaming porn platform for psychological trauma he claims he suffered after being exposed to extreme, violent, graphic, and sexually explicit content every day without industry-standard safeguards, according to a new lawsuit.Neal Barber, who was hired by Bayside Support Services and Multi Media LLCthe parent company of Chaturbatein 2020, filed a lawsuit on July 22 claiming that those companies knowingly and intentionally failed to provide their content moderators with industry-standard mental health protections, such as content filters, wellness breaks, trauma-informed counseling, or peer support systems. The lawsuit is a proposed class action for moderators hired in the last four years to moderate Chaturbate streams.Do you know anything else about moderation at social media and adult websites? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at sam.404. Otherwise, send me an email at sam@404media.co.The company has not been served nor has it reviewed the complaint and therefore cannot comment on the matter at this time, a spokesperson for Multi Media LLC told 404 Media. With that said, it takes content moderation very seriously, deeply values the work of its moderators, and remains committed to supporting the team responsible for this critical work.Chaturbate hosts live cam shows by adult performers, and most shows also feature a live chat where users can tip performers, talk to each other, and request specific sex acts or pay to take a model private for short exclusive camming sessions.Because platforms like Chaturbate host vast amounts of live, unfiltered, and sexually explicit content, content moderators are essential to maintain compliance with legal standards, enforce platform rules, and prevent the dissemination of illegal or abusive material, the lawsuit says. They serve as the first line of defense against child exploitation, non-consensual content, violent content, obscene content, self-harm, and other violations. Without content moderators, Chaterbate.com would quickly become unmanageable, unsafe, and legally vulnerable.Barber claims Chaturbate doesnt adequately protect moderators, which the lawsuit says the platform calls Customer Service Risk Supervisors. The lawsuit alleges that Chaturbate doesnt use many of the industry-standard practices for protecting moderators against psychological harm, such as grayscaling content or muting auto-playing videos or mandating wellness breaks and offering trauma-informed supervision or psychological support.Without these safeguards, Mr. Barber eventually developed full-blown PTSD, which he is currently still being treated for, Chris Hamner, an attorney representing the plaintiff in this case, told 404 Media. The class action we have filed seeks redress for Mr. Barber and other content moderators like him who are battling the effects of this harmful content moderation work on the Chaturbate platform. It's a negligence argument based on breach of duty of care.The lawsuit alleges that moderators like Barber continue to be routinely exposed to some of the most graphic, disturbing, obscene and psychologically damaging content found anywhere online. Their jobs require them to monitor live-streamed material which too often involves child sexual abuse imagery, self-harm and suicide threats, extreme violence, and highly obscene, degrading, or dehumanizing sexual acts. Much of this content is created to be intentionally shocking, often non-consensual, and designed to provoke trauma.Exposure to this content, the lawsuit claims, has resulted in vivid nightmares, emotional detachment, panic attacks, and other symptoms consistent with PTSD for Chaterbate.com content moderators.The lawsuit is the latest in recent years where moderators have sued platforms for alleged lack of protections. In 2019, media reports including an expose by the Verge about Facebook brought light to the topic of moderation and the psychological trauma platform moderators can endure when working with user-generated content. In 2022, a former moderator for Pornhubs parent company told the Verge about their time at the company a decade ago, which involved, in part, moderating assault videos. Also in 2022, Youtube paid $4.3 million to moderators to settle a lawsuit that alleged they didnt receive proper protections from the platform while viewing disturbing content. And a 2024 report by the Intercept found that Brazilian moderators were paid pennies to moderate extreme content on X, with no psychological support. This is the first time Chaturbate has faced a lawsuit for its alleged moderation practices.Last year, the state of Texas sued Chaturbate and several other porn sites, complaining that the sites were not complying with Texas' age verification law. Chaturbate paid $675,000 as part of a settlement. In May, a woman in Kansas sued Chaturbate, claiming that it was the sites fault that her teenage son found her old laptop unlocked in a closet and used it to access porn without age verification in place.

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Without knowledge of proper safety measures, a strong current can turn a relaxing day at the beach into a deadly nightmare. Here are some tips for surviving a rip current:Do not try to swim against the current, but rather at a 34-degree angle relative to the wind, increasing by a factor of five for every 10 millibars above 100 of barometric pressure.Never get in the water unless your private security personnel are on duty.Avoid swimming in dangerous areas where the moons gravitational pull causes tides to rise and fall.Endear yourself to the rip current by explaining that you are 80% water.Try to escape the rip current by getting caught in the undertow.Fight the urge to remain calmyoure drowning, this is a big deal.If you get tired, see how you feel after a refreshing gulp of seawater.Accept that you are beginning a new life at sea.The post Tips For Surviving A Rip Current appeared first on The Onion.

Indian police arrested a man for running a sham embassy from a rented residential building near New Delhi, with the accused acting as an ambassador to entities such as Seborga and Westarctica. What do you think?Yikes, Seborgan prison is not a place you wanna end up.Nicole Kraiger, Megaphone TesterReally makes you second guess all the other ambassadors that set up shop in your neighbors garages.Eugene Garvin, Demolition SchedulerThe people of Westarctica deserve better.Bill Erebus, Conspiracy CataloguerThe post Man Runs Fake Embassy While Posing As Ambassador appeared first on The Onion.

CANTON, MAStressing that whatever garbage they have on their menu couldnt possibly be better than what Americans had at home, Dunkin officials announced Monday that they no longer have the heart to charge customers money for such horrible, depressing meals. While we take pride in our brands popularity across 43 states, we cannot in good conscience let the public pay for one more completely pathetic sausage-and-cheese croissant, said Dunkin CEO David Hoffmann, adding that their greasy, miserable excuse for a breakfast was often sitting out for hours before being carelessly tossed in a microwave and reheated by pressing a button labeled egg. There is nothing in this world that can justify having you waste your hard-earned money on Snackin Bacon. When you purchase a Wake-Up Wrap, it just feels like were preying on on someone who has reached rock bottom. Please stop buying our food. You deserve better. At press time, Hoffmann reportedly urged anyone considering ordering a distressing Dunkin meal to just put their credit card away and take it for free.The post Dunkin Announces They No Longer Have Heart To Charge People For Such Depressing Meals appeared first on The Onion.